INTENSIVE JOURNEYS

"Human development is a mandala...We need to have a transformation of human consciousness, inwardly, that’s the balance to or the support for the amazing outer transformations". Jack Kornfield

INTENSIVE JOURNEYS utilize the following tools:

GUIDED MEDITATIONS, ARTMAKING, NEW STORY AFFIRMATIONS, JOURNALING, TIME PARTNERING IN REVERENCE WITH NATURE, ANCESTORS AND THE INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS OF THE LAND YOU OCCUPY, RITUAL WORK, A GRATITUDE PRACTICE AND AN INTENTION TO GIVE BACK TO COMMUNITY.

CURRENT INTENSIVE FEATURES THE FIVE PART JOURNEY OF:

THE EXQUISITE MANDALA

Conceptualized and created as an
Integrative Intensive Journey
for mid-wifing a New Story for self.
If it is true that in some way, all art is a self-portrait,
how will your art inform you?

Facilitated by artist/sole original creator, Elizabeth Izzo

During the registration process you select what medium you want to work with: Collage, Soft Chalk Pastel or Neocolor Water Soluble Crayons are recommended.

Following this, you are
sent a supplied kit including pre-cut
sections of an acid free paper circle. Each shape will be uniquely decorated by you, the participant journeyer. Four sessions last approximately 60 minutes each, within a multi layered process. We can meet via phone or Zoom. Our final 5th session is 30 minutes. You will receive detailed information as you move through registration. All inquiries welcomed.

Each week during the 60 minute sessions, a new shape is decorated per a guided meditation. The participant (you) work with specific themes throughout the week as they emerge from self-study modules. Support is available via email check-ins. After the fourth journey session, finished shapes are brought together in a "reveal" forming an integrated whole, your Exquisite Mandala. We reflect on your creation and process in the final 5th session. How has the Journey and the art informed you? What next steps do you see for yourself? Pictured: Exquisite Mandala completed With Neocolor Crayon. E Izzo ©2021

Artwork created during THE EXQUISITE MANDALA JOURNEY by Zoey O.

"The sacred mandala journey brought artmaking back into my life. I thought it was gone, finished. Words don't say enough about Elizabeth's abilities as a skilled empathetic facilitator and her commitment to the "success" of my journey. I would encourage anyone with curiosity about the process to go for it! Artist or not, it will be an extremely worthwhile experience of learning about yourself and your connection to Spirit".
Zoey O, Elon NC.

This Journey welcomes our feelings to be felt, witnessed and potentially LOVED.

WEEKLY JOURNEY CIRCLE THEMES:

Intention and Gratitude - Setting our course
Observation & Allowance - Feeling what is with Expansion and Non-Judgement
Surrender and Trust - All is well in this moment, the universe has our back...let go, let flow
Transformation for a New Story - We are the change we want to see in the world
Integration - Moving Forward, each new moment is an opportunity for choice & creation (30 minute session)
Each session opens with a brief greeting/check-in, moving to grounding and opening of the sacred circle. A guided meditation is directly followed by art-making. We close the circle with gratitude. Follow-up weekly emails provide a tailored self-study module.

"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul, the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine". Shaun McNiff

Artmaking, as a sacred and shamanic practice is something we can commit and recommit to throughout all of life’s challenges and cycles. We show up for it because it serves us as a grounding and informing practice.This inner and integrative process supports us as we navigate the mystery that is life. In addition, we learn to return to balance by accepting the graceful invitation for acceptance, unfoldment and flow. This offering, including sacred artmaking, is an application of creative and spiritual self care that is guided by intuitive and ancient practices. We accept ourselves as both emerging into newness and ancient in our belonging...The Exquisite Mandala was created as a tool for re-imagining wholeness and bringing into consciousness the oneness of our eternal being as reflected in the circle motif. Accordingly, each individual piece when integrated with all others, becomes the whole, the one - embracing our humanity and our nature as creators.

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”
Paul Klee

SPECIAL SERVICE OFFERINGS:

SHAMANIC ARTMAKING INTENSIVE JOURNEY featuring THE EXQUISITE MANDALA
by distance only

IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY: UPDATED - SPECIAL OFFER:
*$299.00, regularly $399.00
Available via ZOOM
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